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Bill Gates says he got into every Ivy League school he applied to, but tailored a different ‘persona’ for each application: ‘Each was a performance’
Bill Gates applied to three different Ivy League colleges and experimented with his persona, emphasizing different experiences and career goals for each one. The Microsoft cofounder would later ...
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Bill Gates looks to his Seattle past, pushes Trump for a better future
Young Bill Gates, in his telling ... of him almost getting kicked out of the Ivy League school. Gates had permission to use the computer center and was sneaking in people like Allen to work ...
Why Socialism Fails: The Case for Capitalism
The evidence has been conclusive from time immemorial. Economic systems flourish with private incentives that gratify the ...
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Bill Gates was accepted into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. He says he treated each application like a 'performance.'
Bill Gates is a well-known Harvard dropout, but his applications to Ivy League universities as a teen are just as interesting as his decision not to finish his degree. In his memoir, "Source Code ...
Warren Buffett: You don't need to attend college to be a great CEO—'I never look at where a candidate has gone to school'
When Warren Buffett selects CEOs for Berkshire Hathaway-owned companies, he doesn’t care about where they went to college, he ...
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Bill Gates says Microsoft might not have taken off if he hadn’t dropped out of Harvard—or spent his nights sneaking out to code until 2 a.m. at 13
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates used to sneak out of the house ... the then-20-year-old entrepreneur dropped out of the Ivy League to chase his dreams. “I had to give in to the inevitable ...